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...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...
...Coincidentally, discovering a plot to solicit members for the Young Communist League in Cambridge high schools by means of ice-cream parties (in which Harvard undergraduates allegedly were active), Cambridge's Mayor John W. Lyons announced a counterstroke: The city will supply its children with ice cream...
...What a Life is so long on character portrayal that it is terribly short on plot, never quite masses its laughs through mounting situations, merely sprinkles them brightly at regular intervals. As slight of build as the kids it treats of, What a Life is, like them, young, lively, fast on its feet, full of agonies a first kiss or even an ice-cream soda could drive away...
...during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry...
Murder and kidnapping among a group of wealthy people marooned on a lonely island off Cape Cod, solved by likable local sleuth. Elisha Macomber. Plot: deft; atmosphere: good...